Everytime i try to update Spyware Doctor, it tells me that my 'database is up to date'. I checked the last time it was updated succesfully and that was 02nd December 2005!

This is the free version which i downloaded and have been using for at least 6 or more months, so i don't believe it is a 1 month trial version. Has Spyware Doctor gone out of business or is it their way of telling me to 'upgrade'?

are still in business and the website does not say how long the trial is for BUT it DOES say thisquoteDownload the latest version of Spyware Doctor and scan your PC for thousands of spyware, adware, and malware threats. Please note the trial version is limited to scan only.end quotehttp://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor/

I says nothing about updates for the Trial version so if you have been using it for that long, maybe it is time to either buy it or uninstall it because it's not doing you much good the way it is.

I supplied in my previous post but according to the PCTools website, the trial version scans only. I don't know if it removes things or not and the realtime protection does not work on the trial version either. You can read everything here.http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor/

What i am referring to is that originally (last year) the free version did in fact remove everything it found. I still have it on my computer, but I told a friend to download it and now it will only scan and not remove anything unless you purchase it. I also notice that as of the New Year the updates don't work anymore on the free version. I do have Spybot and ad-aware but I found that have all 3 worked very well together finding things that the others didn't.

Ok so im not the only one who noticed! Yes there was a free version that scanned AND removed spyware which as of mid december05/jan06 has stopped updating it's database for the free version as t9275 rightly pointed out.

I have AVG antivirus, spybot, adaware and microsoft antispyware. I can tell you that AVG and spybot have found 1 virus each, ms antispyware none, adaware has found about 4-8 each scan but Spyware Doctor has managed to find the most (about 20 each scan) including TROJAN HORSES which all the others missed. So by far it is (or was) the best free spyware buster i had. I am now contemplating buying the full version. If it wasn't so effective, i wouldn't even bother. However i will try some other trial versions out there and see if they can measure up to SWDoctor first.

find multiple problems. There is NO ONE program that will find everything. They all look for different things. Another excellent program is ewido. Is has a 14 day trial period but remains free after the 14 days if you don't buy it. All you lose is the process guard and the auto updating but you can still get the updates manually and scan with it,. You can get that here.

Hi Roddy32,Firstly many thanks for the link to ewido anti-malware. I have already used it and after one pass it has discovered 24 infections and cleaned them all out. The only thing i would have preferred is if it could scan the whole pc in one go and then you can choose to remove all infections at the END of the scan. As it is now, everytime it detects ONE infection, it stops the scan completely and awaits instructions to remove/quarantine, etc. If you are away from the PC and come back, it will be there waiting for you to click 'OK' before continuing.

Also, i may have been misunderstood earlier. I said ''Spyware Doctor has managed to find the most (about 20 each scan) including TROJAN HORSES which all the others missed''. I didn't say they were ALL Trojan Horses, but Spyware Doctor manages to nab about 1 or 2 each time. None of the others even spotted Trojan Horses, not even Ewido. I don't scour the less savoury sites for the simple fact that i use my PC for important financial transactions and am paranoid about getting the TH's, thus my preference for SW Doctor.

However, i love the fact that Ewido has managed to detect so many infections and is still free after the trial period! You are right, not one program can detect them all. THanks again for the link, Ewido is now an important part of my antispyware arsenal.

I am getting desperate because I have been trying to uninstall Spyware Doctor for about 5 days, without success. I have e-mailed them twice outlining error messages, but only had an acknowledgement to my first, so far. Also, I close all active pages and files before trying to uninstall, so there shouldn't be any files still in use.

The error messages are as follows,

"File"C:\Programme File\Spyware Doctor\uninsooo dat" could not be opened, cannot install Error 32. The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

I just updated my "free" version of Spyware Doctor. It will also still remove spyware. I don't know how long this free version works but it seems to me I downloaded it about a year ago. I got this version somewhere on the net but not at the PC Tools site. I can't remember now where I got it. The last update was 982 Kb. It is still one of the better spyware removers along with Spysweeper.

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